According to reports by the National Center for Education Statistics, black women are now the most educated group in the United States. By both race and gender there is a higher percentage of black women (9.7 percent) enrolled in college than any other group including Asian women (8.7 percent), white women (7.1 percent) and white men (6.1 percent).

Reports also show that black women earned 66 percent of bachelor degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees and 65 percent of all doctorate degrees awarded to African-American students in the US between 20019 and 2010.